Remote Access from Outside Network

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Hello,

This is how I got it to work. I listen to my Roon at the office. My roon server is at home.

  1. Used a Netgear Orbi, it supports OpenVPN. I am guessing any router which supports OpenVPN will work. I use that for my home connection.
  2. Setup OpenVPN on Netgear Orbi, download Windows 10 ovpn files. Copy those files to laptop.
  3. Setup OpenVPN on laptop, obtained it here https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/
  4. Copied the config files obtained from Netgear Orbi, copied them to the profile folder.
  5. Imported the opvn file into OpenVPN, then connected. At this point disconnect, then renamed the network adapter to NETGEAR-VPN
  6. Open the network adapter NETGEAR-VPN and set the address to static, same range as my internal home network. 192.168.1.x
  7. Conected to VPN using OpenVPN,
  8. Roon now thinks it is on the same home network, I opened it, set my audio output to my laptop and started playing music.

I have access to Internet, my home network, and Roon. I am happy with this solution at the moment. To get it working on my phone, I am going to install the software called connectify which will make my remote laptop a router, then sync my phone to it to share the VPN connection on the same subnet. I use a spare. Not a beautiful way to do this, but it works, would be nice if this was built into the app itself.

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